About Me
Hello! My name is Ruoqing Yao (姚若轻). I'm a second-year PhD student in the Linguistics Department at UC Santa Cruz. Before joining UCSC, I received my B.S. in Computer Science and Linguistics from William & Mary. I'm originally from Beijing, China.
Research
I'm primarily a psycholinguist. My main research interest lies on the intersect of ambiguity resolution and pronoun resolution. I am currently investigating constraints on the pronominal ambiguity advantage effect. My advisor is Matt Wagers. I'm currently coordinating s/lab.
Presentations
2024
Yao, R., Lu, J., Degen, J. Perceived interpretability predicts satiability for CNPC islands but not WH islands. California Meeting on Psycholinguistics. Stanford University, Stanford, CA. January 14.
Yao, R., Hogoboom, A. Resumptive Pronouns in Islands Show Confusability Advantage Effect. 2024 Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting. New York City, NY. January 7.
2023
Yao, R. The Processing of Resumptive Pronouns in Islands. Graduate and Honors Research Symposium. William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA. March 30.
Posters
2025
Yao, R., Wagers, M. Who Gets to Race? The Effect of Initial Bias on Pronominal Ambiguity Advantage. Poster at the 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. March 27-29. [poster (PDF)]
2022
Parker, D., Glauser, C., Rust, G., Wright, N., Yao, R. Antecedent reactivation leads to faster retrieval: Evidence from ellipsis. Poster at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. March 24.
Yao, R. Satiability and Interpretability. Poster at the W&M 2022 Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium. William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA. September 30.
Curriculum Vitae
You can find my CV here:
CV (PDF)Contact
- Email: ryao10 [at] ucsc [dot] edu
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruoqing-yao-8161121a2/
Other: me not as a linguist
- I play table tennis. I was previously the president for Club Table Tennis at William & Mary. At UCSC, you can often find me playing at the table tennis area in East Field Gym with UCSC Table Tennis Club.